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August 30, 2024
Our Land and Water has now ended.
Our mission was to preserve the most fundamental treasures of Aotearoa – its land and water – while producing value from those same treasures.
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LandscapeDNA
The LandscapeDNA information hub gives you access to the Physiographic Environment Classification developed with funding from Our Land and Water. Interactive maps allow you to…
Journal Article
Assessment of excess N2 for quantifying actual denitrification in NZ groundwater systems
Denitrification in groundwaters is a key nitrate (NO3) attenuation process, where leached NO3 can be reduced to gaseous forms of nitrogen (N2). In this study,…
Journal Article
Denitrification potential in the subsurface environment in the Manawatu River catchment
Understanding the effects of hydrogeological factors on loss, transport and fate of farm nutrients is essential for predicting their impacts on ecosystem health of receiving…
Summary
Project Summary: High-Performance Soils for Avocados
This article summarises the results of a Rural Professionals Fund project that aimed to collect leaf, fruit and soil samples from 29 different avocado orchards…
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Summary: Can Regen Ag Increase Resilience to Drought?
This one-page summary describes considerations for choosing indicators of resilience and study sites, and a recommended approach for quantifying resilience to drought and flooding in…
Rural Professionals Fund 2023–24
There were 10 successful projects in the fourth and final funding round for the Our Land and Water Rural Professionals Fund.
Summary
Next generation key to future of whenua
Case studies of two Māori Land Trusts aim to identify a pathway that will engage a new generation of kaitiaki to protect historically and culturally…
Method
A method to derive nitrogen transport factors for New Zealand’s agricultural lands
Risk index tools have the potential to assist farmers in making strategic decisions regarding their farm design to manage losses of nutrients. Such tools require…
Technical Report
Parameters for simple empirical catchment water quality models for simulating Escherichia coli in New Zealand rivers
E. coli is sampled at over 1000 long-term river water quality monitoring stations across New Zealand every month. Analyses associated with NPS-FM implementation commonly use…
Where are we conducting our research?
This interactive map shows the location of all our research projects to help connect you with the research happening in your catchment.
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